I've noticed that even as a subscriber, some new thing called "Linksmart" is being included in pages, and results in keywords like iPhone, MacBook and so on being linked to GZ price searches, eBay listings, or other affiliate-y things. Is this intentional? I thought one of the benefits of subscribing is that we don't get any of the advertising code pushed down so we get faster browsing? This smells like ad code to me...

- Viglink: automatically turns keywords into affiliate links. These are NEVER shown to logged in users, subscribers or not.

- LinkSmart: turns keywords *I* specify into links.

I am using LinkSmart to automatically link to make sure things like "telecom forum" link to our Telecom forum. Or "sbiddle" links to his blog and so on. I also made it link "Amazon Kindle" to our affiliate page or some keywords link to our Price Comparison site.

Kyanar: If it is in fact an extension or some such, then GZ is advertising itself through some pretty sketchy ad networks!

Hmmm, no sketchy ad networks involved.

No no, I was replying to the suggestion that it was an extension or plugin on my browser, in which case I would be surprised to see ads linking to GZ price search etc because that would be a little dodgy!

I saw one result point to eBay though - I can't imagine this was intentional, was it?